Richard Dawkins on New Threats to Science—From Religion to Relativism
The legendary atheist and evolutionary biologist argues that truth shouldn't bend to faith or fashionable politics.
The legendary atheist and evolutionary biologist argues that truth shouldn't bend to faith or fashionable politics.
Many people prefer naturally produced over man-made. But isn't there something just as compelling about the stuff that thousands of people collaborated to make?
RFK Jr. has had a crazy week. It will not be his last, alas.
Despite those viral charts you may have seen, conscientiousness among young people doesn't actually seem to be in "freefall."
For just $55 million, you can book a weeklong vacation on the International Space Station. It's not exactly an all-inclusive beach resort.
A report affirms that greenhouse gases are warming the planet, but it also found no convincing evidence that U.S. hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts have become more frequent or intense in recent decades.
Universities’ internal culture wars threaten free speech and inquiry, but political attacks on research funding and infrastructure are crippling U.S. scientific leadership.
The appeals court held that the government may require COVID-19 shots based purely on the benefits to recipients.
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya defends open disagreement, criticizes groupthink, and argues that democracy depends on our ability to speak and listen across political and scientific divides.
A Lancet study’s inflated numbers are being used to push a partisan narrative, not inform public policy.
The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's impact on dopamine levels.
What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?
In this painfully mediocre Jurassic Park franchise placeholder, even the hypocrisy is nostalgic.
While a viral post called the results “shocking,” the study itself found little evidence that social media use harms mental health.
Unfortunately, the director of Health and Human Services leads a movement prone to untrue beliefs on medical matters from cell phones to vaccines, pesticides, and genetically modified crops.
Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction."
With the culture war blazing, not even the Supreme Court could agree on the medical facts of the case.
States keep banning lab-grown meat. Entrepreneurs keep innovating anyway.
Italy is full of treasures from the ancient world, but its government is discouraging their discovery.
A biotech company used DNA from thousands of years ago to clone three wolf pups that resemble the extinct dire wolf.
Criticisms of the president's alleged flip-flopping on gain-of-function research funding miss some key context.
The Trump administration's plans to slash science funding could end up liberating researchers from the corrupting influence Dwight Eisenhower warned about.
"We did a lot of field studies and got nothing to show for it," said one U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory researcher.
The evolutionary biologist challenges modern dogmas, defends scientific objectivity, and warns against the rise of ideological orthodoxy in society.
Nominees include stories on inflation breaking brains, America's first drug war, Afghans the U.S. left behind, Javier Milei, and much more.
The survey estimates that 7.5 percent of America adults use illegally produced fentanyl each year, 25 times the rate indicated by a government-sponsored survey.
The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."
Hundreds of thousands of miles of fences ensnare and sometimes kill wild animals. GPS technology offers an alternative.
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
The dinosaur ancestors of birds laid blue, brown, and speckled eggs as far back as 150 million years ago.
Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it.
A large new study finds smartphone ownership positively correlated with multiple measures of well being in 11- to 13-year-old kids.
Cultivated meat isn't challenging slaughtered meat anytime soon. But states keep trying to restrict competition.
The past three administrations have tried and failed to implement binding regulations on risky research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
An experiment with staggering implications for the future of human reproduction.
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
The new, coarser world will likely be with us for years to come.
What if mosquitoes could deliver not just the disease but the protection to an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually?
Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID-19 emergency, here's what the research says.
Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID-19 emergency, here's what the research says.
A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.
HHS, like all government programs, has plenty of silly and wasteful line items in its budget; there's no need to just make things up.
The Good Eats host talks about the virtues of Cap'n Crunch, why fusion cooking isn't cultural appropriation, and how Martha Stewart's perfectionism ruined dinner parties.
The five-year survival rate of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is currently 13 percent.
A new study claims addiction is on the rise because internet searches for gambling terms are increasing.
A radioactive isotope embedded in a diamond has the potential to power devices for thousands of years.
Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?